Obituary

Michelangelo's marble giant became the internet's reference point for ideal masculinity — and then the punchline for everything that fell short of it. He died when 'David' stopped being a statue and started being a bar every gym bro failed to clear.

Portrait: Commonists · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Born

2012

Died

2019

Cause of death

Set an impossible standard

Last sighting

A fitness meme, 2019

Resting place

Section H, Row 2

Category

art